@prettygood@KaiserKitty@PurpCat@phnt I bet you could gatekeep people by just making signing up for an account requires doing it through the tor version of the website. The clear web version would have no register button. You'd probably gatekeep a huge chunk of people with such a minor wall.
@PurpCat@KaiserKitty@phnt@prettygood I just feel like maybe the era of open chatrooms is over again. Maybe it'll just be we go back to forums and you know not centralize to reddit again. Putting a minor gate like maybe someone has to make 10 posts that aren't ass on the forum before they get access to the matrix server. You'd require an actual dedicated asshole to do it over some random asshat who sees it as a cheap laugh.
@PurpCat@phnt the worst part is the realization that your normie relative, who fell for the 23andme meme might have doomed you because of their horrible opsec for even their own dna.
@Suiseiseki I mean usually laptops are 1 motherboard and if your cpu or gpu crap out your whole laptops a brick. At least in this cause the rma is just replace the broken side. It's pretty sad how abysmal laptops are overall. I'm pretty sure storage isn't soldered to the board.
Cpus haven't been socketed in a laptop since the lenovo t440p right? Did we ever have socketed gpus?
Tfw this laptop manufacturer must be feeling super smug right now due to nvidia rop gate also applying to laptops. Instead of needing to throw out everything they only need to return the nvidia mainboards.
@lina Call it a cope but i'm seriously starting to just see them crawl onto bluesky so we can hope enough of them crawl over to give enough engagement to the narcissists so they decide to stay there.
@DarkMahesvara@Suzu how much do you want to bet it's because they were close to done the game. A coup in the office happened where they went full DEI, and then they fired or #metoo'd all the competent employees realized that they killed the host. Afterwards they had to throw everything out to remake the game from scratch because everyone who assembled the first run of the game is no longer here.
@Meemoo no wonder riot refuses to let vanguard support linux. :clownpiece_glowie: but jeez that's wild also incredibly disgusting. I'm glad I don't play multiplayer games with kernel level anti-cheat.
@Cayhr@rlier23@0vtcast At this point I won't be surprised if the future we're all using i2p or Tor if you want anything that isn't full of normie brainrot.
@DarkMahesvara@blueknightfrank Valve generates keys for free for their partners (I recall them not taking a cut on any steam key). So the developers who's selling the key is selling it on their own by distributing it to a storefront to sell the key. So if the keys are bought with stolen credit cards from a authorized key reseller that's entirely on them.
In Valve's case it only really affects them when it comes to steam trading cards so they're now stricter on how many keys you can generate if you have fuck all for actual game sales.
100 sales on steam but wanting to generate 500k keys for steam trading card abuse.
@blueknightfrank fwiw I usually don't mind buying product on steam because they actually do something to benefit me (making proton/wine better which makes linux support of games better).
Better that linux gets more support than be stranded on microshit's increasingly creepy operating system.
Though at this point buying product is more I enjoyed your product you should have money so you can make more.
Devs should promote pirating the game over having someone buy a key off of one of those sketchy websites though.
Those are actually negative money because they're bought with stolen credit cards and other shenanigans which leads to chargebacks.
@Meemoo i think it really just depends on the software. If its something that will be connected to the internet it's probably going to be a good idea to keep it updated lest you become part of some botnet.
:clownpiece_glowie: when you think of all those IoT cameras and whatnot that are connected to the internet still running firmware from 2005 being used to ddos websites/services.
Otherwise I think it's fine to not update software if it works it works provided it's not connecting to the internets.
@Meemoo I'm at the point where if I care about old software I have an airgapped computer that has all the software I want to run it on while being kept offline and if I want to add additional software it'll be by usb..
The alternative is I'll eventually have to learn how to use proxmox so I can emulate the environment required to run the disc image of the above computer so that I can keep running ye olden software in perpetuity.